FrameThrower · Actors · Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning
14 films · 944 frames · top-billed in 11 · 2006–2025
Born 9 April 1998 · Conyers, Georgia, USA
Mary Elle Fanning is an American actress. As a child, she made her film debut as the younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning's character in the drama film I Am Sam (2001). She appeared in several other films as a child actress, including Daddy Day Care (2003), Babel (2006), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Phoebe in Wonderland (both 2008), and the miniseries The Lost Room (2006). She then had leading roles in Sofia Coppola's drama Somewhere (2010) and J. J.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 944 frames from the 14 films we hold. This is the look of the work Elle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 14 films we hold, 46% of their frames are day, 44% low key — the look of the work Elle takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A Complete Unknown
2024 · Sylvie Russo
I Think We’re Alone Now
2018 · Grace
Live By Night
2016 · Loretta Figgis
The Neon Demon
2016 · Jesse
20th Century Women
2016 · Julie
Maleficent
2014 · Princess Aurora
Low Down
2014 · Amy Albany
Ginger & Rosa
2012 · Ginger
Twixt
2011 · V.
Super 8
2011 · Alice Dainard
Somewhere
2010 · Cleo
Sentimental Value
2025 · Rachel Kemp
The Beguiled (2017)
2017 · Alicia
Babel
2006 · Debbie Jones
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 944 frames from Elle Fanning's 14 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.